China Box Office Propels ‘Sacrifice’ Past $100 Million

Dave McNary Film Reporter“Wonder Woman 1984” will hit theaters in China on Dec. 18, a week before the Warner Bros.

Most U.S. moviegoers will be forced to settle for watching Wonder Woman 1984 at home next month, after Warner Bros.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorMore news on the Monster Hunter and Wonder Woman 1984 fronts with China dates now set for both films. The former, starring Milla Jovovich, has landed a December 4 release in the Middle Kingdom while Warner Bros/DC’s Gal Gadot sequel is due on December 18.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTaiwan’s National Communications Commission unanimously ruled on Wednesday against the renewal of the license of a TV station controlled by pro-mainland China snack tycoon Tsai Eng-meng. Tsai was accused of interfering with the broadcaster’s editorial independence.Under the ruling, CtiTV will go off-air from Dec.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefA team of Russian, U.S and Greater China producers is to give a second season to “Better Than Us,” a sci-fi series that was launched as a Netflix Original.The first season tells the tale of a unique, AI-powered, family robot, with the ability to defend itself.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefBaidu, China Internet search and AI giant, has agreed to pay $3.6 billion in cash for the Chinese live-streaming business of JOYY.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChinese video platform iQIYI is rapidly losing out to rival Tencent, latest financial results show.The Baidu-backed iQIYI reported on Tuesday that that it had more than halved its losses in the three months from July to September that make up the third quarter of its financial year. Net loss attributable to iQIYI was RMB1.2 billion ($173 million), compared to net losses of RMB3.7 billion in the same period in 2019.

The United States military still reigns as the most preeminent one in the world, but a new report exclusively obtained by Fox News shows that sustaining that superiority is far from guaranteed as the Pentagon still trudges through budget cuts put in place almost a decade ago. The Heritage Foundation's "2021 Index of U.S.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorEXCLUSIVE: STXfilms’ hit action pic Greenland has been set for a China release on November 20 via China Film Group and JL Vision. The Gerard Butler-starrer is the latest among a small handful of new import titles to see wide theatrical play in the Middle Kingdom following the COVID-19 lockdown earlier this year.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefWar film “The Sacrifice” was the most watched title in Chinese theaters for the third consecutive weekend. It earned $9.2 million over the frame and extended its cumulative score to $150 million, since release on Oct.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: This year’s Hainan International Film Festival (December 5 – 12) will host China’s biggest retrospective of Charlie Chaplin films in collaboration with Trinity CineAsia and Mk2.The event will host 20 screenings of Chaplin films across the island, encompassing five of his classic comedies: Modern Times, The Kid, City Lights, The Great Dictator and Monsieur Verdoux.

was 'intimidating and excessive'.One video shared online appears to show university security staff filming students as they entered the campus.It was retweeted by Gorton MP Afzal Khan who wrote: "This seems unnecessarily heavy handed.

Alexandra Daddario loves. The actress, who is best remembered for her roles in the Percy Jackson film series and in 2017’s Baywatch, exclusively opened up to Us Weekly with 25 things you might not know about her — including her love for dogs, reality TV and food.

The biggest film of 2020 won't be Tenet. Christopher Nolan's time-traveling tentpole might have been the only major release from a U.S.

China on Friday became one of the last major countries to congratulate U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who is expected to make few changes to U.S.

animals are native only to China, which claims ownership over all pandas loaned to foreign zoos, including those born abroad.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChina has become one of the last major countries to congratulate Joe Biden on being elected U.S. president.